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Back in 2000, students at Buffalo Grove High School knew that senior Jeff Pardo of Arlington Heights was going places with his music.
Turns out, they were right.
Pardo returns at 7 p.m. tonight on Fox in the hit reality show, "The Next Great American Band." He plays in the rhythm section of the 12-piece band, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, which has emerged as one of the top five bands.
Just to start out as one of the original 12 bands that debuted on the show in mid-October, the group had to survive a cut that was whittled down from 14,000...